It is not easy to achieve success, but once you have achieved it, the way is open to even greater prosperity. For example, a novelist may write nine books and yet remain comparatively unknown. Then the tenth book becomes a best-seller, which not only ensures success for any further books he may write but also creates demand for the first nine.
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